Admit it. There's a power in power. People who have once experienced it, can never forget it. Maybe the moment came during a competition success. All the people's complements; their flattering smiles; the hateful gazes of the losers.
Or perhaps, it was the high school good grades. Some local incident, where you took the lead. A childhood memory. It can be anything. But one thing's for certain, you have experienced power. Because you know, what powers feels like. What people who have power feel like.
And once people know power, they crave power. The result; Hollywood being flooded with movies like the Avengers, that shows the concept of power, at its most basic level. And other movies like the House of Cards, and Game of Thrones. That projects Power in all its intellectual elegance, and dark subtility.
The world that we live in, has both angels and demons. The angels need power to stop the demons. The demons need power to kill the angels. And Power... Power needs both. To thrive. To propagate. To contaminate.
In this article, we will try to view the concept of power from the Asian perspective. Yea, you heard right. We will discuss how the Asians view power different from the western people. And speculate what would have happened; if the Asians participated in the typical western fictional power struggles, like the Game of Thrones and House of Cards.
To make things more interesting, and to add a certain charm to this discussion. We will make our journey, through the world of the Eastern films. No, not those like the Train to Busan. There are other far more intriguing movies than that.
And although movies don't always depict reality. Which may be far more cruel, and terrifying. It can at least give us a glimpse, into the lives of the Eastern people. What they think of power. And how the Westerners are similar to them, when it comes to the battle for the throne.
The Throne. Is a strange thing. People think that they vie for the throne. They kill for the throne. And that, they live for the throne. But what if the Throne itself, had a purpose? To make people kill. To turn sibling against sibling. Friend against friend. And parents against their children.
We think that we play for the Throne. But how is it, that we get played by the Throne instead? Funny, isn't it? No. Dreadful?
To be continued...
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